Frank Zappa: The Complete Guide to His Music - Softcover

Watson, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844498654 ISBN 13: 9781844498659

Publisher: Omnibus Press, 2006

Synopsis

The indispensable consumers guide to the music of Frank Zappa. A thorough analysis of every officially released album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, from the groundbreaking albums of the Sixties through Zappa’s experimental, avant-garde work to the most recent posthumous releases.

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Review:

There is probably no figure of modern popular music who so deserves the sort of scholarly exercise undertaken by Ben Watson in this book, and I am personally convinced that Zappa will be regaled by 21st Century music historians as a "crux of the biscuit" of 20th Century music.

And this 700 page tome will certainly be cited by our music historian descendants. In fairness, it may confound today's Zappa fans with it's copious references to Adorno, Freud, and Marx, but is likely to delight the erudite with its excerpts of the playfully situationist lyrics of Zappa, completely deconstructed by Watson. There is no doubt that Zappa was a genius--albeit a peculiarly American sort--and there is no doubt that no book has yet attempted such a thorough (albeit peculiar) analysis of his genius. Highly Recommended.

About the Author:

Ben Watson has written extensively on Frank Zappa. In 1993 he read his work - his 'demented scholarship' to his dying hero.

About this edition

• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1844498654
• ISBN 13: 9781844498659
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128